Employee empowerment: Conceptualizations, aims and outcomes

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1025-1041

  Hill, Frances ^a   Huq, Rozana ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EFQM excellence model; Empowerment; Power; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644298839     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1478336042000255505     Document Type: Article

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